Re: IBM Developerworks ceasing this December

I don't disagree.  I have used the AIX forum on all sorts of IVM/VIOS stuff as well as the Java Forums. So, yeah, way bigger than just IBMi.  I posted with my IBMi/COMMON hat on.  Larry's post gets to the heart of the current dilemma: If IBM plans to move stuff to communities, where and what and when will that happen?  I figure that we, as a community, can be more nimble than IBM so I am hopeful that we work all ends to the middle.

I am currently looking into scraping some stuff and several others are as well.  Common, Common Europe and probably quite a few business partners are knocking on IBM's door right now saying "give it to us".  We'll see where that leads.

Pete Helgren
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On 10/21/2019 8:32 AM, midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Pete:

While I appreciate the fact that the COMMON Board might be interested in the IBM i content, there is far more out on DeveloperWorks than IBM i. Much of that content bleeds over in to the IBM i space due to the intersection of the POWER platform. So COMMON would need to take all the technologies that run on POWER as opposed to just the IBM i and/or open source content.

The larger problem as I see it is no matter where it's hosted, the IBM folks will not have nearly the freedom to post things they do today. Today the legal and other departments can control all the content, all the time. When/if it moves to a third party they will loose that control. The normal response from them would be to stop IBM'rs from posting anything meaningful at all. A corollary to that is to control who is able to post and how it is moderated. That's not a small job. Does COMMON have the wherewithal to pull that off?

The decision to drop DeveloperWorks is a galactically stupid move and the best way to really hack off your best customers.

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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects